Tuesday, November 09, 2004

WinLibre WinLibre - "WinLibre is a rigorous selection of free, legal software for Windows 98, 2000, XP." It includes OpenOffice, Firefox, Gimp, etc.  in a single install package.  Still needs Windows, but you could use this as an alternative set of apps. 12:17:44 PM    comment []  trackback []

New Version of MyDoom Worm in Zero-Day Attack New Version of MyDoom Worm in Zero-Day Attack - "The worm, known as MyDoom.ag in McAfee's naming, does not have a file attachment, as is typical of mail worms. Instead, it installs a Web server on Port 1639 of the infected system. The e-mails it sends out to spread itself contains a link to the server on the infected computer." I'm already seeing this on the CALI mail server with infected messages coming from .edu domains.  There appear to be a t least two variants out there. Here are vendor links: Trend MyDoom.AG MyDoom.AH Symantec MyDoom.AH MyDoom.AI Sophos Bofra-A Bofra-B 10:22:50 AM    comment []  trackback []

GeekSpeek - Tech Talk for Geeks - Building a LAMP Server w/ LDAP Authentication GeekSpeek - Tech Talk for Geeks - Building a LAMP Server w/ LDAP Authentication:" This tutorial is designed to guide you through the initial steps of setting up an Apache, MySQL, and PHP server on Linux which will utilize an external LDAP server for authenticating users. The server will be able to use either Apache's authentication process (i.e. via httpd.conf), or PHP's (i.e. coded into your app). The Linux distribution being utilized for this tutorial is Fedora Core 2, however the steps should be very similar across most distributions. " Good intro to these tools for those just getting started. 8:36:41 AM    comment []  trackback []

Mozilla Launches Firefox 1.0 Mozilla Launches Firefox 1.0 - "Early Tuesday morning, the Mozilla Foundation made Firefox 1.0 available for download. With the browser, the open-source development project hopes to attract more everyday Web users and snag 10 percent of the market in another year. " www.mozilla.org already seems to be swamped.  Best to wait a day or 2 and then download. 8:33:02 AM    comment []  trackback []